Re: Where does the "16 SECTOR" message come from?

["William Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"Tristan Mumford" <xtristan.xmumford@xgmail.xcom> wrote in message news:45dbdb54$0$22095$c30e37c6@lon-reader.news.telstra.net...
: William Garber wrote:
:
: >
: > "Tristan Mumford" <xtristan.xmumford@xgmail.xcom>
: > wrote in message
: > news:45dbc8fc$0$22079$c30e37c6@lon-reader.news.telstra.net...
: > :
: > : I put the files up on my site, then checked them.
: > : Big mistake. The softswitch works fine in the monitor.
: > : I could change banks and list the contents. However
: > : changing them with a POKE and then saving did absolutely
: > : nothing. All the four ROM files are the same. Any ideas?
: > :
: > : It also appears as if pages 4-7 are accessible, just all
: > : unwritten. Ie FF.
: >
: > If you could, read the chip with an eprom programmer
: > and post that. It should give us exactly what's there.
:
: I sold my EPROMmer a couple of years ago. Silly me. If anyone still wants a
: dump done directly, point me in the right direction of an easy, ie cheap
: way to rip it. Simplest method I can think of is to utilise a uC to drive
: the ROM, and dump via serial. Seems a bit of a pain though.
:
: Anyway, unless the 256 byte pages are in a different order to their banking
: numbers, they could just be put together with rom0 at the bottom working
: upward. And stick 1k of FF on the top. Probably only useful to someone
: wanting to add emulator support for it though.

Eprom programmers are cheap on eBay. Also, you
might get one from one of the many kit sellers
online. Just do a search and you'll find many
of them. I'd say $15-$30 no problem.

William Garber
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